Glass-house rocfing



PATENT FFIQEe GLASS-HOUSE -ROOFINQ Speccation of Letters Patent.

.Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

Application filed January 2, 1920. Serial No. 348,938.

To @ZZ 107mm t may concern: l

Be it known that I, PAUL VJ. JANNocH, a citizen of the United `States, residing at Pasadena, in the county of Los Angeles and State oit California, have invented new and useful improvements in Glass-House Roofing, of which the following is a specication. Y

rlhis invention relates to building construction and more particularly .to rooting, and has for its object to provide an improved roofing member in the nature of a transparent ror semi-transparent tile, and which can be advantageously used in houses or buildings wherein transparent or semitransparent roofs are desired, and the invention consists of the construction and details embodiments of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described and claimed herein. f

Figure 1 is a perspective of a portion of a glass-house roof.

Fig'. 2 is a perspective of one of the improved cover plates.

Fig. 3 is a perspective ot one of the plates showing its upper edge as modified for arrangement at a hip line of a roof structure.

Fig. d is a perspective of a ridge plate.

5 is a perspective of a portion of the. roof as constructed with the improved roof and ridge plates Fig. 6 is a sectional view showing the arrangement of the ridOe or hip plates and the subjacent plates.

lt is understood that the improved roof construction may utilize plates, of the type hereinafter described, that may be made of different material according to the purpose in addition to the usual covering property of the roof, and in the present case the improved roof structure is illustrative of the application of the invention to the construe* tion of glass-houses in which case the root forming plates or members are of 'translucent or transparent material, but as above indicated the roof forming plates may be of any suitable material and therefore may be opaque.

ln the construction of the improved roof a suitable tiamewOrk is erected comprisingl transverse stringers 2 spaced in parallelism a suitable distance apart along rafters 3 that may be suitably supported by an under'- pinning or studding l, the strangers. 2-2 being preferably oi small transverse dimensions but of such size as to be of sufficient strength to serve their purpose which is to serve as a hanger for the roofing plates or tile, one of which is shown in perspective in Fig. 2 as comprising a generally plane body part or panel 5 of suitable length and width and having` along its longitudinal edges flanges one ot which is shown at 6 as dellecting slightly outwardly from the plane of the panel 5 while the other flange is deflected in an opposite direction or inwardly with respect to the plane occupiedby the body or panel 5. The flanges 6 and 7 are equal in width an they occupy the same relative angular planes with respect to the plane occupied by the body 5 of the panel, and as a result of such construction, the entire under face of flange 7 makes direct contact with the entire upper face of flange 6 of the next adjacent member when the plates or tiles are assembled to form a roof.

At one end of the panel 5 and on the under face thereof there is provided a hook 8 having an inner recess 9 of such area as to readily receive the body Vof the Stringer 2 over which the plate or tile is laid and on which it is hooked, as clearly shown in Fig. l. In such arrangement of the plates the outwardly deflected flange 6 of one tile or plate forms substantially a channel that is overhung by the superposod marginal flange 7 of the next adjacent plate 5; each of these plates as hung from one Stringer 2 being arranged in suitable spaced relation and .having their contiguous ,edges overlapped throughout the course or Stringer, and the plates ofthe next higher Stringer or course having their lower ends overlappingthe upper ends of the next lower course or belt so as to efliciently shed water draining down the superposed plates or tiles.

To facilitate the construction of a hip or ridge as shown in Fig. 5, a set of plates 5 is provided, the upper transverse ends or edges of the plates being flattened as at l0 into the plane of the body or panel 5 of the plate, the flattening of the upper ends of the plates being to such a depth along the upper ends of the plate as to provide for the application thereto of ridge or hip torm-` ing plates or tiles one ot which is clearly illustrated in Fig. d.

The longitudinal ridge or hip plate designated l2 comprises an elongated body porq. laid position.

4tion of V-shape in cross section, the divergent'lateral parts of the plate having an. angle complementary to the angle of vthe opposite roof panels of the roof being con-V structed, and one end of each of the hip lates l2 is shown as deflected uowardl' as P l provided a roof tile or plate or" simple and practicalA ormthat can be readily erected in place in the construction of a roof and which will be eifective in the shedding ci Water and practically leak prooi" when in its properly7 Various v changes may be made Without departing from the spirit of my invention as claimed.

I claim:

The herein described roof, composed of a plurality of assembled plates, each of Which comprises a substantially rectangular flat body portion, flanges projecting from the sides of said body portion, which flanges are equal in Width and arranged in. parallel planes that are. inclined with respect to the plane occupied by the body of the plate, said iianges overlapping` throughout `their entire widths, the corresponding flanges ofthe ad jacent roo'l members when the latter. are properly asseinb ed, and which overlapping flange arrangement causes the body portions of the members to occupy inclined planes when properly assembled7 and thereby pro-V viding` a roo'strncture having a plurality of parallel shallow channels.

name to this specification.

In testimony whereof I have signed my Y 

